print "It looks like the parse definition in the time class "
print "does not actually use 'self' in any of its body code "
print "and therefore you cannot use the latter syntax. "
print "But if you wanted to use the latter syntax, you might "
print "run into a little trouble, because it looks like "
print "the string '1:00 pm' would be considered a string "
print "and therefore use the string class's definition of "
print "parse, which there might not be any of in the first "
print "place. So you would probably have to go into the string "
print "class and define a parse method that does what you want "
print "it to. "